Antto Vihma's latest article on global climate governanceSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma has written a scientific article about the global climate governance landscape. The article was published in MIT Press Global Environmental Politics -journal on March 26th (Volume 15, Issue 2) and the other writers are Michele Betsill, Navroz K. Dubash, Matthew Paterson, Harro van Asselt and Harald Winkler.

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19.3.2015

Putin's Pipeline PredicamentSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma and Visiting Senior Fellow Michael Haltzel wrote an article together with the CEEPR Executive Director Michael Mehling about the South Stream pipeline, Putin's flagship project that was recently abandoned. The article was published in The Huffington Post on March 18th.

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3.3.2015

Antto Vihma's MIT Working PaperSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma wrote a working paper together with Johannes Urpilainen. The working paper is called "Soft cooperation in the shadow of distributional conflict? A model-based assessment of the two-level game between international climate change negotiations and domestic politics" and it was published in the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) Working Papers -series. At the moment it's available to the MIT CEEPR Associates, and it will be available to everybody in May.

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9.12.2014

A complicated mediation towards ParisSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma commented on the Lima climate summit in Helsingin Sanomat on December 9th. According to him, the biggest obstructing force of the climate negotiations is a group of like-minded conservative developing countries that thinks the west should stop climate change by itself.

Finland Deepens Nuclear Ties With RussiaSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma commented in an article published by The Moscow Times on December 7th on the Finnish parliament's decision to approve the plans for the Fennovoima nuclear power plant. According to Vihma, the project carries a foreign policy risk and under current circumstances it should have been put on ice. Instead of accommodating Russia's new aggressive foreign policy line, Finland is taking yet another step to deepen relations with Russia, Vihma said.

Dr. Antto Vihma in Kaasupäivä in HelsinkiDr. Antto Vihma reminded in Kaasupäivä on Tuesday 18th November in Helsinki that the Ukrainian crisis is not only a geopolitical game started by Russia. It also has geoeconomical dimensions where the energy plays the lead.

In the media

19.11.2014

Antto Vihma on Novosti YleSenior Research Fellow at the Institute Antto Vihma commented on the building of the LNG terminals in Finland and Estonia on Novosti Yle on November 18th. According to him, building the terminals will result in Finland having other sources for natural gas than just Gazprom.